St. George's United Church episodes:

• December 12, 2016Sermon: "Fellow Prisoners," December 11, 2016

  Think about it, and you’ll spot yourself through the bars in the prison

  window. Somewhere. Think about it, and you’ll know what that old hymn means

  when is says “O Come O Come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel.” Because

  we are all prisoners of one kind or another. Prisoners of our own

  brokenness, prisoners of the world’s brokenness. Captive. With no obvious

  way out. No way home.

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• November 08, 2016Sermon: "The God of the Living," November 6, 2016 All Saints

  Resurrection is all about God. It’s not about us having a blueprint for the

  future. It’s not a theory, or an explanation. It’s not about us having

  faith in the immortality of the soul, or that there is a better place when

  we die. Resurrection in the end is all about God. And the power of God’s

  love.

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• November 08, 2016Sermon: "The God of the Living," November 6, 2016 All Saints

  Resurrection is all about God. It’s not about us having a blueprint for the

  future. It’s not a theory, or an explanation. It’s not about us having

  faith in the immortality of the soul, or that there is a better place when

  we die. Resurrection in the end is all about God. And the power of God’s

  love.

  ...more

  

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• October 31, 2016Sermon: "Jesus Ruins Everything (in the Best Possible Way)", October 30, 2016

  Jesus is kind of like a new baby. We all love the idea of welcoming a new

  life into our own. But when it finally happens it turns everything upside

  down. When Jesus walks into Zacchaeus’ home, when he walks into his life.

  He gets so much more than he bargained for. Because Jesus ruins everything.

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• October 31, 2016Sermon: "Jesus Ruins Everything (in the Best Possible Way)", October 30, 2016

  Jesus is kind of like a new baby. We all love the idea of welcoming a new

  life into our own. But when it finally happens it turns everything upside

  down. When Jesus walks into Zacchaeus’ home, when he walks into his life.

  He gets so much more than he bargained for. Because Jesus ruins everything.

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• October 24, 2016Sermon: "Not Like One of Them," October 23, 2016

  the spiritual life, Way of Jesus Christ is not our way to get a leg up a

  ladder to the heavens. Or to get a leg up on others. It’s a way to come to

  terms with the darkness in ourselves. So it can be illuminated by the love

  of Christ. And we can carry that love to the world’s dark places.

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• October 24, 2016Sermon: "Not Like One of Them," October 23, 2016

  the spiritual life, Way of Jesus Christ is not our way to get a leg up a

  ladder to the heavens. Or to get a leg up on others. It’s a way to come to

  terms with the darkness in ourselves. So it can be illuminated by the love

  of Christ. And we can carry that love to the world’s dark places.

  ...more

  

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• October 16, 2016Sermon: "the Divine Imprint," October 16, 2016

  This gets to the heart of it, you could say. About how real change happens.

  Real change doesn’t come to us from the outside in—as rules, fixes, or

  techniques to change us from the outside in. Whereas laws written in stone

  can be broken and put aside, the divine relationship etched into our

  hearts, the Spirit that is at work inside of us is more enduring. This is

  what God is up to at St. George’s. This is what God is up to in our

  fragile, hurting world.

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• October 16, 2016Sermon: "the Divine Imprint," October 16, 2016

  This gets to the heart of it, you could say. About how real change happens.

  Real change doesn’t come to us from the outside in—as rules, fixes, or

  techniques to change us from the outside in. Whereas laws written in stone

  can be broken and put aside, the divine relationship etched into our

  hearts, the Spirit that is at work inside of us is more enduring. This is

  what God is up to at St. George’s. This is what God is up to in our

  fragile, hurting world.

  ...more

  

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• October 09, 2016Sermon: "Grace and Gratitude," October 9, 2016

  Friends, this is the power that gratitude can have. It’s not something so

  glib as “be positive.” It’s not something so simple as “be satisfied with

  what you’ve got.” Or “changing our personal vibrations,” in the words of

  our dear friend Oprah. No, it’s so much more. It’s that within all of our

  lives. However joyous they may be. Or however dark they may become. Within

  each of these, within our world, there is light, if we have the eyes to

  see.

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